Example sentences of "a good man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even afterwards , when the worst was known , he certainly still thought he was a better man than Mengele ; perhaps even the nuclear physicist Edward Teller ( Father of the Hydrogen Bomb , Wicked Uncle to Star Wars ) . |
| 2 | But Graham is a better man than that , and can recognize an acceptable compromise when he sees one . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm a new man , I 'm a better man . ’ |
| 4 | Likewise Churchill , who would have agreed with her sentiment when she told him that without the Board of Education , the Board of Trade was ‘ powerless ’ to make ‘ a better worker , a better man , or a better citizen of the young worker . ’ |
| 5 | And Thiercelin wondered whether of all the men in the Grand Army , he alone realized that the charmless , unpopular Davout was a better soldier , and a better man , than the emperor , and might have served as an example to princes , had he only possessed a little more humanity . |
| 6 | The defendant proved a better man than the trained police drivers . ’ |
| 7 | I watched Alexander whore , drink , lecher and toady to your Edward and I knew that I was a better man . |
| 8 | Another ting , he 's not a coward … he 's a better man than any of you scum . |
| 9 | Could n't ask to have a better man around . |
| 10 | Lucille had left France because she loved Sharpe , whom she knew was a better man than he thought himself to be . |
| 11 | It will not do to suggest that prose is always the inferior state , of course , since Edgar in prose is a better man than Edmund ( King Lear ) , as he is in verse , and Iago ( Othello ) works equal havoc in both media . |
| 12 | In return , William was required to recognize that , since the fief he held of the bishop was now larger than those any other lord had bestowed on him , he ought to be ‘ a better man ’ of the bishop than of any of his other lords . |
| 13 | The cries of gratitude sounded from the car and heartfelt from Haverford , ‘ You 're a better man than I am , Gunga Din . ’ |
| 14 | But you 're making a mistake if you think you 'll ever be a better man than me . |
| 15 | Even bent and old like I am , I 'm a better man than you 'll ever be . |
| 16 | I found a better man than Dudley , James . |
| 17 | You can get a better man than myself ii you will not disgust good men by insisting on their competing with dolts and dunces . |
| 18 | She was a better man than the rest of them put together ! |
| 19 | He is a better man than his two younger brothers , and he is different from his sister . |
| 20 | If there is danger , you could not have a better man by your side . ’ |
| 21 | And he is a better man than the King . |
| 22 | Initially they both showed signs of running a mile and denying all knowledge , but by cunningly playing on their male pride , their desire to believe they were ‘ a better man ’ than their rival , she made each one mad with jealousy of the other , and finally had her pick of which she preferred , leading him up the aisle of the Methodist Chapel well before the bulge began to show . |
| 23 | He , that he 's now a Director of this Ipswich Buses and I do n't think you can get a better man to do it because he is heart and soul in transport , he , the things that he brought in , the different innovations that he brought in were good , I mean he brought in , he brought in all this erm operated vaults and all that sort of thing and all this electronic gear that they are working now . |
| 24 | And he is not yet so low that he can not bring down many a better man . |
| 25 | A woman spends years saying no , not this one , stay out of my bed : I 'll wait , a better man will come along : and with the better man a better baby . |
| 26 | ‘ He may play the Devil , but he 's a better man than you are ! ’ |
| 27 | You and the good doctor are thick as thieves , and I ca n't think of a better man for you . ’ |
| 28 | He assumes that becoming rich has made him a better man and that he deserves admiration for it . |
| 29 | And he said you 're a better man than I am ! |
| 30 | I 've had four doctors tell me I 'm a better man than them ! |